admitted (to) having + pp

[Roger Wang]

"Honestly, he admitted having embezzled public funds and invested most of it in the stock market."

"Honestly, he admitted to having embezzled public funds and invested most of it in the stock market."

my question is about "admitted or admitted to" thanks!

 

[PaulQ]

He admitted the crime -> "the crime" is an adverbial noun phrase (also known as adverbial objective) It is a noun phrase that is the adverbial complement of "admitted". It is a complement rather than an object as "admitted" does not operate on "the crime".
He admitted to the crime -> "to the crime" is a prepositional phrase modifying "admitted".

In Old English, the "to" was not needed (although it sometimes appeared) as it was implied by the noun phrase in the dative grammatical case. When English lost its grammatical cases,

Semantically, they are the same.

 

[billj]

"Honestly, he admitted having embezzled public funds and invested most of it in the stock market."

"Honestly, he admitted to having embezzled public funds and invested most of it in the stock market."

my question is about "admitted or admitted to" thanks!

[1] Honestly, he admitted having embezzled public funds.

[2] Honestly, he admitted to having embezzled public funds.

"Admit" can take a gerund-participial clause or preposition phrase as complement, as in [1] and [2].

Note that it can also take a direct object or declarative content clause, as in [3] and [4].

[3] He admitted his crime.

[4] He admitted that he was to blame for the crime.